[mythtv-users] Unable to install MythTV on UbuntuMATE Linux 16.04

[Jan Ceuleers]

On 13/05/18 10:40, Bret Busby wrote:
> On 13/05/2018, George Poulson <george.poulson at gmail.com> wrote:
>> As a previous poster has said, mysql and mariadb are equivalents.
>> An application that needs an sql database *should* be able to use either
>> mysql or mariadb.
>>
> 
> But not mythtv.
> 

Bret,

You don't seem to be interested in the answers given to you by people
here, including the devs.

I am running myth 0.28/fixes in combination with mysql 5.5 on my old
Ubuntu 14.04 backend. I have a new backend in the works (running Ubuntu
16.04) which, when I install mythtv on it from the regular Ubuntu
repositories, brings in mysql 5.7 as well.

Other distros (Fedora comes to mind) have replaced mysql by mariadb in
their repositories, and mythtv works fine with it.

HTH, Jan